i bought this skimmer a little over a year ago. and am currently planning an upgrade of my tank size and without a question will be buying a reef octopus skimmer to go in that system as well. put it in your cart and your fish will thank you

this skimmer works better than any skimmer I have used! started pulling skimmate out within 10min! great product. btw the free shipping method only took 38hrs from placement to delivery. wow BRS u rock!

Great skimmer and most bang for your buck.

Works great on my 90 gallon.

Im just going to make this simple ... I was new to this hobby 1 year ago and thought i would save some money on some cheap skimmers for my tank .. being new to the game caused me to not know what a GOOD skimmer would do .. I thought my cheap no name skimmers where doing great !! That was until I bought my first Reef Octopus .. I now know what a skimmer is saposed to do ...it dosent matter it Your looking at the 4 inch or 6 inch reef Octopus , it will pay you back for every dollar you spend on it ...

I bought this for my 120 g DT , total volume 200g and it works very good. This is the best price you would get anywhere. And Reef octopus is the best brand to go with!
This will do the work, as well as the $600 one.

Only problem I found was that the skimmer inside the box was not exactly like the one pictured on the box cover. The outlet tube from the skimmer was a very short gray tube and not like the red longer tube on the box cover. This makes the water exiting from the skimmer just above the pump itself which means you cannot place this very deep into your sump. I will have to make my own tube or let the company know the problem.

I purposely waited a few months to write this review, because I wanted to get some use out of this thing beforehand. While I have a low bio-load at the moment, this thing still pulls out some nasty stuff, so I can imagine what it's going to do once I add my trigger and they all start growing. After a few weeks of operation, the skimmer has quieted down significantly, for those concerned about noise.

I did contact CoralVue for a tighter fitting pipe where the gate valve sits on, and the rubber caps for the air valves, which they sent out for free; their customer service was excellent!

The ONLY negative that I can see is that CV had to bump up the price due to manufacturing costs from when I bought mine.

I was reluctant to get this skimmer, but I needed one in a bad way, and the reviews are great, so I stuck it in the cart and it was on it's way.

when I opened the box, I was impressed at the packaging. First off, BRS took the skimmer box and put it in their own box filled with a massive amount of peanuts. Inside the skimmer box, you will find a Styrofoam mold of the skimmer that holds it securely. It went together very quickly and after sticking the air tube on, I took it over to the tank.

When I got there, I found out that my 12" sump was not exactly 12". On the outside it was, but on the inside, the 3/16" acrylic took up just enough that I had to set the skimmer in there in a way that I didn't want to. But, I got it in there.

Once I fired it up, as it should have, it started producing bubbles. In less than 30 minutes, I had some light skimmate in the cup. Yup, it was running very wet. I waited a week playing with the settings, and boom, it was perfect. Very little playing around and now, I'm having to empty the cup about every 3 days.

One down side, my sump has a much higher water level than this skimmer suggests. The valve sits on a pipe that is MUCH shorter than it shows in the pictures. For this reason, I had to put the exit of the valve under the water with the knob just above the water. I was worried that it would over flow the cup, but to my surprise with the very finely tunable valve, it's perfect even when it's submerged! I was very surprised.

I'm building a new sump and I will be adding the correct length tube and put it at the correct level in the sump.

Other than that one pipe, I have NOTHING bad to say about this skimmer. Wait, let me dig a bit. There was two pieces of tape that was holding on the lid to the cup, and the tape was broke when I got it. It's weak tape, but it's hard to get off the acrylic. Okay, now we are digging really deep for issues lol. It's a great skimmer, you will love it! This should be BRS Recommended!!!

This thing is a monster! After spending hours doing research I'm glad I went with this skimmer!. Easy setup and very good quality.